[Bug 1667113] Re: System users appears in Ligthdm and user switcher (Accountsservice has no filter for shell types)

[ChristianEhrhardt]

KDE and Gnome seem to not have the issue in general (To admit - I didn't try myself the Gnome case yet), so in Artful it might be resolved by the switch to Gnome.
I didn't hear from the Desktop Team yet about accountsservice getting a fix.

Also for now there is a workaround in [1]
If this gets no attention for a (more correct and preferred general solution by the desktop Team) we might add that in a libvirt update, but as it is a symptomatic fix only I'd prefer the other solution.
And in turn all the affected packages would have to get such a fix (probably even more and in general as users could add "hidden-shell" type users on their own - and those shouldn't be displayed as well.

[1]:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1667113/comments/18

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Title:
  System users appears in Ligthdm and user switcher (Accountsservice has
  no filter for shell types)

Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in base-passwd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ceph package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ifmail package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in netqmail package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in sddm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  "Technical" user libvirt Qemu appears in the list of user in Ligthdm,
  among the real regular users. It probably shouldn't

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: libvirt-bin 2.5.0-3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.9.0-15.16-generic 4.9.5
  Uname: Linux 4.9.0-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
  Date: Wed Feb 22 22:09:24 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-01 (21 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170201)
  KernLog:
   
  SourcePackage: libvirt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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